Sentences with phrase «high school dropout rates»

This report shows how disparities in school attendance rates starting as early as preschool and kindergarten are contributing to achievement gaps and high school dropout rates across the country.

The results of this failing system are all too clear: glaring achievement gaps, record high school dropout rates, declining international rankings, and extensive demand for postsecondary remediation.

This strategy, proponents say, will cut high school dropout rates, raise test scores and, ultimately, increase graduates usefulness to employers.

Undocumented kids have the highest high school dropout rate in the country except for Native Americans «because if you're going to be consigned to a life of working under the table, why not start at 16 rather than 18?»

The National Dropout Prevention Center for Students with Disabilities has published a monograph that explores the problem of high school dropout rates among American Indian, African American, and Latino males with disabilities and provide an in - depth look into the specific obstacles that impede this young population from graduating, while offering direction and articulating crucial changes that must be made to better serve these students.

Texas is partnering with private foundations in a $ 130 million effort aimed at reducing high school dropout rates and increasing the number of students who reach college.

Native Americans long have had one of the highest high school dropout rates of any ethnic group in the nation.

The mid-size city of Manizales, Colombia, faces a significant high school dropout rate as well as low quality of education, as shown in standardized tests.

The grant will support job readiness and career counseling programs at the Job Resource and Development Center at Martin Luther King High School in Northwest Philadelphia and is intended to help decrease high school dropout rates.

His Department of Education will consume more than $ 25 billion this year, and in return taxpayers will get a 30 - plus percent high school dropout rate and a graduating cohort largely unable to do college - level work without substantial remediation.

The Urban League's report states that these gains are a result of lower high school dropout rates, increased literacy actives by Black children at home, and a higher percentage of Black Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 earning associate's degrees.

Perceived prevalence of bullying and teasing predicts high school dropout rates.

With the country's highest level of poverty concentration among blacks and Hispanics, an above - average high school dropout rate and a massive load of debt, Syracuse is in a state of disarray.

However, a back - of - the - envelope calculation suggests that the reduction in Head Start attendance among African Americans may account for at least 16 percent of the 1 - percentage - point increase in the African American - white gap in high school dropout rates after the initiatives were passed.

A study released May 14 by a leading business organization attempts to show that the nation's statistics on high school dropout rates have been vastly underestimated.

Education initiatives that ranged from boosting teacher salaries to driving down high school dropout rates dominated much of Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen's State of the State Address to lawmakers in Nashville last week.

Hoxby examined how changes in unionization rates among teachers driven by DTB law passage affects high school dropout rates.

Study of economic potential if high school dropout rate in Rochester were to be cut in half.

Pomp and Circumstance Del Stover High school dropout rates plummet as districts find ways to get students to the finish line.

Nationally, the Hispanic high school dropout rate reaches a new low.

But in the 1970's, East Lake fell on hard times seeing poverty, crime, and high school dropouts rates spiral out of control.

Duncan opened the meeting by describing a «tremendous urgency to get better educationally,» noting the country's fall from first to 16th place in the world in college graduation rates, the national high school dropout rate of 25 percent, and his belief that the United States has a skills crisis — not a jobs crisis — and must better prepare students for their transition to a career.

DPS on - time graduation rates have increased slightly, from 46.4 percent in 2009 to 51.8 percent in 2010, while annual high school dropout rates have decreased substantially from 11.1 percent in 2006 to 6.4 percent in 2010.

We are also interested in policies that help struggling high school juniors and seniors «catch up» academically to avoid spending valuable time on remediation in college, and interventions, such as early warning systems and freshman on - track systems, that use data to reduce high school dropout rates.

A new report from Attendance Works and Healthy Schools Campaign shows how disparities in school attendance rates starting as early as preschool and kindergarten are contributing to achievement gaps and high school dropout rates across the country.

As Emma Brown noted in the Washington Post, Duncan drew a connection between gun violence and high school dropout rates in disadvantaged neighborhoods, saying that both are the result of hopelessness that children feel when they grow up believing that they have a better chance of dying young than going to college or getting a job.

It can be a way to identify special needs students, but RtI can also be used to decrease high school dropout rates.

NuSkool — Citing a 50 percent high school dropout rate, NuSkool uses video game - and pop culture - inspired content to keep students engaged.

In fact, birth control allows young people to finish high school — which is especially important here in Arizona since we have a high teen pregnancy rate and subsequent increased high school dropout rates.

Perceived prevalence of bullying and teasing predicts high school dropout rates.

Jim Spady, a longtime charter advocate, said that even though R - 55 failed, the state's high school dropout rate of more than 30 percent can't be ignored.

Before then, the high school dropout rate was almost 16 percent; the percentage of our elementary students meeting national norms on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills in reading was less than 37; the percentage of our students testing in the bottom quarter was about 32.

Since its launch, Montana's high school dropout rate has decreased from 5 percent in 2009 to 3.7 percent in 2014, and the graduation rate has increased from 80.7 percent in 2009 to 85.4 percent in 2014.

Some even predicted that the high school dropout rate might double.

Wholesale problems, such as the achievement gap and the high school dropout rate, are labeled as «education failures.»

As a group, Hispanics perform well below average on national achievement tests, and their high school dropout rate is nearly four times that of their non-Hispanic white peers.

With the high school dropout rate for Native Americans among the highest in the country, reservation and public school officials are searching for new ways to keep teens in school.

New data from the Census Bureau show that the high school dropout rate among U.S. Hispanics has fallen to a new low, and that the reduction has come alongside a long - term increase in Hispanic college enrollment.

Included: Programs designed to reduce the high school dropout rate among Native Americans.

Both Maine schools, though, follow their alumni, and their high school dropout rates are higher than the national average.

A major goal of Connecticut's efforts to improve the quality of education, increase achievement, and reduce racial segregation has been to reduce the high school dropout rate and increase the number of minority college students.

Native American Schools Ponder, Assail Dropout Rates With the high school dropout rate for Native Americans among the highest in the country, reservation and school officials are searching for new ways to keep teens in school.

While the national (USA) high school dropout rate has declined, many school systems still struggle -LSB-...]

The high school dropout rate among U.S. Hispanics has fallen to a new low, extending a decades - long decline, according to recently released data from the Census Bureau.